January 7, 2021
Amelie “Amie” Sloan of Pinewater Farm, Harbeson passed away Thursday, Dec. 31, 2020, at the age of 101, following a short illness. She was a proud native Delawarean, having been raised in Dover and Rehoboth Beach. Born Feb. 23, 1919, in Wilmington, Amie was the daughter of James Hall Anderson and Blanche Virden Brown Anderson of Dover.
She graduated high school from George School, a Friends School in Pennsylvania. Amie attended Barnard College and graduated from UNC Chapel Hill, N.C., majoring in history. Following college, she returned to Delaware to marry Samuel Sloan and learned to be a farm wife.” While raising her family, she spent 20 years teaching elementary school in Millsboro and tutoring homebound students all over Sussex County.